Her Fearful Symmetry Her Fearful Symmetry

Her Fearful Symmetry

A Novel

    • 3.8 • 181 Ratings
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel—set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living.

Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls’ aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie.

The girls move to Elspeth’s flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth’s elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including—perhaps—their aunt.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2009
September 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
5.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Victander ,

Loved it!

I read this book several years ago and would still recommend to anyone, despite the "need for more" ending. If I was part of a book club, I'd recommend it just so I can have an inexcusable excuse to read it again. Wish they'd make a movie out of it.

Swooof ,

Weirdly boring

I loved The Time Traveler’s Wife written by this same author, so I decided to give this book a try. I simply couldn’t finish it. Too strange and weird and totally boring for me. I don’t like paranormal, so if you do like paranormal, you might enjoy this book. If you don’t like it, save your money. This is only my opinion.

Brinanacuz ,

AMAZING

AMAING BOOK. I LOVED IT SO MUCH. I read it for the first time a couple years back, and even now i still refer this book to other people. This book was incredibly fantastic.

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